Personal and Community Health Chapters 3 & 4
Negative challenges create _______________________.
Distress
Positive challenges create ____________________.
Eustress
All stressful situations are harmful. True False
False
Because depressed people are unpleasant to be around, they should avoid social interaction until they feel better. True False
False
Bipolar disorder involves depressive symptoms that appear in autumn or winter and remit spontaneously in spring. True False
False
Changing in eating patterns is not a typical warning sign of stress. True False
False
Counselors are often no help in clarifying the source of emotional distress and finding healthy ways of coping with it. True False
False
Depression is always an abnormal psychological response. True False
False
Depression only occurs in the United States. True False
False
Establishing a regular sleep time does not help a person get a good night's sleep. True False
False
Eustress is stress resulting from unpleasant stressors. True False
False
Fight-or-flight response occurs in a human body when a person responds to stress with laughter. True False
False
General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS) is a six-phase biological response to stress. True False
False
Generalized anxiety disorder is characterized by persistent and unwelcome thoughts or images, often accompanied by an uncontrollable, urgent need to engage in certain rituals. True False
False
If you have a recurring stressful thought, you should focus on the thought without any effort to replace it with a positive thought. True False
False
Increased blood pressure and increased heart rate are not considered to be physiological components of stress. True False
False
Insomnia is characterized as having trouble falling asleep or staying awake. True False
False
It is best to tell a person who is suicidal that life will get better and then move on to other topics. True False
False
Knowing when a stressful situation will arise produces the same amount of stress as not knowing. True False
False
Over a million people commit suicide in the United States each year. True False
False
Projection is defined as keeping distressing thoughts and feelings unconscious. True False
False
Seasonal affective disorders usually occur in the spring. True False
False
Someone who is depressed always recognizes it in himself or herself. True False
False
Up to 85% of Americans experience an episode of major depression. True False
False
Visualization has no effect in reducing exam anxiety. True False
False
A common defense mechanism is denial, or not believing in the truth. True False
True
A phobia is an intense, irrational fear that can seriously disrupt a person's life. True False
True
Anger may occur when we feel attacked, blamed, hurt, or have experienced a loss. True False
True
Anxiety is the response to an imaginary or future situation that is interpreted as threatening. True False
True
Cognition includes the following mental processes: perception, learning, and reasoning and problem solving. True False
True
Depression can occur as a normal response to the loss of something or someone a person values. True False
True
Displacement describes a situation when you are angry at your parents but you yell at your girlfriend or boyfriend. True False
True
Eustress is the stress that comes from positive challenges. True False
True
Overconsumption of alcohol to decrease stressful feelings is common among college students in the United States. True False
True
People who are depressed often engage in negative self-talk. True False
True
People who believe that they have control over their lives are likely to experience less stress than people who believe that powers outside their control are determining their fate. True False
True
Physical activity can help a depressed person feel better. True False
True
Strategies for action involve your ability to generate plans for attaining your goals as well as your attitudes about your ability to carry out those plans. True False
True
Stress may motivate unhealthy behaviors as a person attempts to deal with stress. True False
True
Suicide is the third leading cause of death among young people ages 15 to 24 years old. True False
True
The fight-or-flight response involves the coordinated activation of the autonomic nervous system and the release of adrenaline from the adrenal glands. True False
True
The lack of sunlight during the winter months can disturb the neurotransmitter systems that affect mood, which can cause people to feel depressed. True False
True
The main hormone secreted during the fight-or-flight response is epinephrine. True False
True
The phases of GAS are the stages of alarm, resistance, and exhaustion. True False
True
The thought that one is in a stressful situation causes the part of the brain called the hypothalamus to secrete a hormone. True False
True
Threat situations are perceived or interpreted as potentially causing harm or loss. True False
True
Unresolved anger and hostility are risk factors for heart disease. True False
True